Rob Ryan

Check out my latest article: What Writing a Nonfiction Book Taught Me About Getting Out of Your Own Way linkedin.com/pulse/what-wri… via @LinkedIn

A great art glass eye collaboration by these two artists. 👁 Watch the story!

@pmddomingos If this is a simulation, building superintelligence odd objective. A civilization capable of simulating a universe wouldn’t need humans to invent AI. But a reality designed to grow individual consciousness through catalyst, choice, challenge. That tracks.

The simulation we live in was created to develop superintelligence, and will soon be turned off.

@Brendone5 @pmddomingos Asking the right questions

@pmddomingos so do i still need to pay off my mortgage

“We stole all your knowledge and art, and now we’re gonna put a meter on it and sell it back to you. You’re welcome.”

@erikmaday @unusual_whales Are they monetizing it?

@unusual_whales The docs say "This project was inspired by the community MCP server built by Erik Maday" but this is literally my code republished under the Unusual Whales name. It's not inspired, this IS my MCP...

BREAKING: We just gave Claude access to the entire options and stock market and it's not a demo. It's the Unusual Whales MCP Server. It plugs directly into any AI assistant and gives it live, structured market data on demand. Build a trading bot. Build a finance dashboard. Build a screener. Build whatever you want. A thread:

@bryan_johnson @joerogan of course

I'll be live streaming the 5-MeO-DMT. Am putting together the line up. Who should we have call in?

"Don't be overwhelmed by what you imagine, but just do what you can" -Marcus Aurelius

Stanford researchers have launched a privacy-focused, open-source platform to study how digital interactions affect physical and mental health. stanford.io/4ryHUoM

@abxxai I love that this post also was written by AI. “Not because of X or Y, but Z”

BREAKING: 🚨 Someone just tested 35 AI models across 172 billion tokens of real document questions. The hallucination numbers should end the "just give it the documents" argument forever. Here is what the data actually showed. The best model in the entire study, under perfect conditions, fabricated answers 1.19% of the time. That sounds small until you realize that is the ceiling. The absolute best case. Under optimal settings that almost no real deployment uses. Typical top models sit at 5 to 7% fabrication on document Q&A. Not on questions from memory. Not on abstract reasoning. On questions where the answer is sitting right there in the document in front of it. The median across all 35 models tested was around 25%. One in four answers fabricated, even with the source material provided. Then they tested what happens when you extend the context window. Every company selling 128K and 200K context as the hallucination solution needs to read this part carefully. At 200K context length, every single model in the study exceeded 10% hallucination. The rate nearly tripled compared to optimal shorter contexts. The longer the window people want, the worse the fabrication gets. The exact feature being sold as the fix is making the problem significantly worse. There is one more finding that does not get talked about enough. Grounding skill and anti-fabrication skill are completely separate capabilities in these models. A model that is excellent at finding relevant information in a document is not necessarily good at avoiding making things up. They are measuring two different things that do not reliably correlate. You cannot assume a model that retrieves well also fabricates less. 172 billion tokens. 35 models. The conclusion is the same across all of them. Handing an LLM the actual document does not solve hallucination. It just changes the shape of it.

Monitoring the situation intoxicates you. It degrades your attention and decision making capacity.

@aidaxbaradari @be_inaudible

Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We live in a world of always-on listening devices. Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and private conversations. With Deveillance, you will @be_inaudible.

@aidaxbaradari @be_inaudible Brilliant

@unusual_whales Good. This a step in the right of preserving human ingenuity and spirit.

BREAKING: AI-generated artwork is ineligible for copyright protection as the US Supreme Court declined to review a appeal case, per Reuters

@Scobleizer @neuralink @CorticalLabs Horrifying…

A difference in company philosophy: @neuralink: put wires on brain. @CorticalLabs: grow brain on wires. Cortical Labs just completely changed my dreams and nightmares. Here it is in Hon Weng’s hotel room. He is showing this off tomorrow at a brain conference in San Francisco. You get a sneak peak tonight.

@ohryansbelt @EricRWeinstein @joerogan UBI is a disgusting ploy to remain placid and numb.

@EricRWeinstein @joerogan Eric, do you believe a permanent underclass will emerge if safeguards like UBI arent in place? Or is it too late

Rule #1 for AI. Learn it now, run like hell, and above all else: “Get Flexible.” Thanks @joerogan.

@EricRWeinstein UBI is the cheese in the trap. Just like “but, you’ll have better jobs” was threading to “rightshoring” in the 2000s

Step 1: you are a human. Stop groveling and waiting. Step 2: Tell your brain to stop thinking like an employee. You are a negotiator. An owner. An investor. A citizen. A protestor. A voter. A thinker. You’re not employee of the month. Step 3: Stop worshipping billionaires in tech. I like them and follow them closely. They are very interesting. But they are not our god king thinking class. It’s fucking enough. They are our business people in tech. No more, no less. Step 3: Get flexible. Learn AI and Coase. You want to protest and collectively liscence @AnthropicAI, @xai, @OpenAI , @GeminiApp. Accept no UBI. It’s human dignity poison. Step 4: don’t stand in the way. You can’t stop this train. But…Your wage income can go down **IF** your liscencing income SKYROCKETS. That’s Coase. Step 5: Profit.

UBI is for pussies and slaves. They are privatizing and repurposing all of human achievement for themselves and calling it training data or “The Corpus”. Get up. And fight. Dammit. Accept UBI and you enter that underclass, so grateful for the stolen morsel you were returned.

@EricRWeinstein AI can’t replace the soul of a story. The nuance of written experience and emotion from top writers. Sure, it can mimick and substitue… it still lacks passion. Someday? Perhaps. Photography and digital has not replace the Roberto Ferri… why?

I care more about mathematics and physics than any other subjects. I have never in my entire life cared even one day about math Olympiad competitions. Nor Erdos problems. Nor who got straight A’s at Princeton. This is, forgive me for saying this, the lame zip code of math and physics. And I am not sure our business intellectuals grasp the difference. Mark these words: AI is coming for us all. No exceptions. But it is going to take out the crossword puzzle Wordies and the World class math Olympiad winners together. It’s coming for our Shakespeares (Wordies) and Grothendiecks (Math People) last. I code a bit. It has already completely replaced me. Obliterated. No pride or ego left. There is nothing I can do it cannot better faster and cheaper. It is nowhere close to me as a Math PhD. Even with its vast abilities in, and knowledge of, mathematics. And *it* knows that. Why? Because as a coder I just know how to do things everyone else does. I don’t invent frameworks. I don’t come up with genius algorithms. I’m a boring, uninteresting coder. But in Math/Physics I’m nothing if not original. I see things that have never been noticed in the literature. Same for writing. This can write a form letter and resume better than I can already. Fair. No contest. But, at my best as a writer, I come up with new ideas people are still discussing years later (e.g. the Kayfabe essay). And I wouldn’t ask it to write my favorite uncle’s eulogy either. Yet.

I love Peter both as a mind and as a friend. But this is dangerously wrong. I am both a word person and a math person. And I am watching our business people become our designated public thinkers. By default.

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal, per TC

@FallRiverReport @SenMarkey @EdMarkey He needs to focus on how eversource and national grid have declared war on our heating bills.

"The Senate must immediately return to session to vote on a war powers resolution. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to continue an unconstitutional, illegal war with Iran." - U.S. Senator Ed Markey @SenMarkey @EdMarkey